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Porcelain: A Sketch of Its Nature Art and Manufacture
by William Burton
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cassell And Company, 1906. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1906. No Edition Remarks. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white plates. Moderate tanning, with foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning and foxing to text block edges. Frontispiece is loose. Cracking to rear hinge, with exposed netting. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1624473811EWY
- Title
- Porcelain: A Sketch of Its Nature Art and Manufacture
- Author
- William Burton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell And Company
- Date Published
- 1906
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Acceptable
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...